Washington DC Metro Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2015!
Congratulations to the Writing Recipients of the 2015 DC Metro Scholastic Art & Writing Awards!
Below is the full list of works recognized in writing in the DC Metro Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. A panel of novelists, editors, teachers, poets, librarians, journalists, and other professional writers has selected these works &mdash: from more than 1,000 submitted this year &mdash: as the most exceptional in the region.
The Busboys and Poets $1,000 Senior Portfolio Scholarship...
recipient is Pooja Chandrashekar for her collection “The Road to Discovery.” Every year graduating seniors are invited to submit of portfolio of work and this year Pooja’s was selected by Busboys and Poets Director of Poetry Events Bomani Armah as the most outstanding out of a very competitive pool of portfolios. He described her portfolio as “absolutely amazing writing.”
The $300 Edward P. Jones Young Writer Award…
goes to Anthony Robinson’s piece of Flash Fiction, “Him.”
The Writopia One-Act Wonder Award...
goes to Emily Zhang for her dramatic script “One Mississippi,” which will be produced Off-Broadway in May 2015 as part of Writopia Lab’s World Wide Plays Festival.
5 American Voices Nominations...
honor what our judges have deemed to be the strongest pieces in the region, regardless of category or age group. One of these pieces will be awarded a National American Voices Medal after it goes through national adjudication.
79 Gold Keys...
were awarded to the most accomplished works in the region. Gold Key writing will be forwarded to the national level of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and considered for national recognition.
131 Silver Keys...
were awarded to distinguished works in the region.
208 Honorable Mentions...
were awarded to promising works in the region.
All Recipients...
| NAME | GRADE | WORK TITLE | CATEGORY | AWARD | SCHOOL |
| Chidera Abii | 12 | The Holy Trinity | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Our Lady of Good Counsel High School |
| Tara Abrishami | 12 | Extraterrestrial Life, Love, and Perfidious Kittens: A Writer’s Confession of A Normal Evening | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Tara Abrishami | 12 | Friday-night Musings | Poetry | Gold Key | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Adele Adabunu | 10 | Threaded. | Poetry | Silver Key | Hayfield Secondary School |
| Shadin Ahmed | 12 | My Name | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Katherine Ahn | 10 | Housecats, Histrionics, and the SAT | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Katherine Ahn | 10 | An Umami Kind of Quiet | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Lilly Akhtarzandi-Das | 8 | That Silly Old Red Balloon | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Washington International School - Tregaron Campus |
| Konika Akter | 8 | i used to be, but now I am | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Swanson Middle School |
| Yasmin Alamdeen | 10 | Garden of Love | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Holton-Arms School |
| Maddie Albro | 10 | The Quirks and Mishaps of Berkeley Hotel - Excerpt | Dramatic Script | Silver Key | Washington-Lee High School |
| Jordann Allen | 12 | Saccharine | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Duval High School |
| Carol Anderson | 11 | Event Horizon | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Fairfax High School |
| Elena Asofsky | 10 | 5 Senses | Poetry | Silver Key | Quince Orchard High School |
| Elena Asofsky | 10 | The Bathroom Salon | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Quince Orchard High School |
| Elena Asofsky | 10 | Joseph | Poetry | Gold Key | Quince Orchard High School |
| Pranav Baderdinni | 12 | Tall and Straight | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Suzie Bae | 10 | The Broken Bu-chae | Personal Essay/Memoir | Gold Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Mei Baek | 9 | Clockwork | Flash Fiction | Gold Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Mei Baek | 9 | Grandmother | Poetry | Gold Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Sarah Baldino | 9 | Upon the Eighth Hour | Poetry | Silver Key | Sidwell Friends School |
| Sarah Baldino | 9 | Wonderland | Poetry | Silver Key | Sidwell Friends School |
| Joon Bang | 9 | Dumpling | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Poolesville High School |
| Via Barr | 9 | Daffodils | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | School Without Walls Senior High School |
| Via Barr | 9 | Choices | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Gold Key | School Without Walls Senior High School |
| Via Barr | 9 | Beginnings | Short Story | Honorable Mention | School Without Walls Senior High School |
| Alexandra Bass | 12 | Just Al | Journalism | Silver Key | Maret School |
| Zara Batalvi | 10 | Fertilizer | Poetry | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Zara Batalvi | 10 | A Letter To the Future Daughter I Might Never Have | Poetry | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Simran Batra | 12 | The Story of Sluts: Slut-Shaming Presented as a Human Rights Violation | Critical Essay | Silver Key | Robert E Lee High School |
| Sarah Benson | 11 | The Trial of Baby Face Campbell | Dramatic Script | Silver Key | South County High |
| Ellie Berenson | 8 | The Tale of the Short-Lived Bubble | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Swanson Middle School |
| Daniel Berger | 11 | Broke or Broken | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Georgetown Day School |
| Daniel Berger | 11 | Focalin XR, 15mg: An Ode to Add | Poetry | Silver Key | Georgetown Day School |
| Ian Berlin | 8 | A Colossal Casting Call | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Maret School |
| Lauren Bontempo | 12 | Utopia | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Winston Churchill High School |
| Lauren Bontempo | 12 | A Flower Shall Grow Again | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Winston Churchill High School |
| Nico Bosquet | 7 | Facing Phobias | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Deal Middle School |
| Nia Boulware | 11 | Saturday Notes to my Little Brother | Poetry | Gold Key | Duke Ellington School of the Arts |
| Nia Boulware | 11 | Williams | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Duke Ellington School of the Arts |
| Whitney Bowen | 8 | Click | Flash Fiction | Gold Key | The Potomac School |
| Erin Bowles | 12 | Out | Dramatic Script | Honorable Mention | Poolesville High School |
| Erin Bowles | 12 | Senior Dramatic Writing Portfolio | Writing Portfolio | Honorable Mention | Poolesville High School |
| Mariah Bowman | 12 | Backstage, Elder to Younger | Poetry | Silver Key | Yorktown High School |
| Mickayla Brandao | 10 | Racism | Poetry | Silver Key | T.C. Williams High School |
| Janetta Brundage | 10 | Chop | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Catherine Burke | 9 | The Coffee | Poetry | Gold Key | The Potomac School |
| Ayleen Cameron | 8 | Dust on the Moon | Poetry | Honorable Mention | National Cathedral School |
| Ayleen Cameron | 8 | The Little Men | Poetry | Honorable Mention | National Cathedral School |
| Jesse Cao | 11 | All Present Efforts | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Walt Whitman High School |
| Jesse Cao | 11 | In the Way Things Turn Out and Nobody's Gonna Know Your Name | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Walt Whitman High School |
| Jesse Cao | 11 | Named | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Walt Whitman High School |
| Jesse Cao | 11 | Deli Down the Street and The Circulator | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Walt Whitman High School |
| Jesse Cao | 11 | May Bygones Be Loved | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Walt Whitman High School |
| Jesse Cao | 11 | Bath | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Walt Whitman High School |
| Jesse Cao | 11 | Your Hermitage and Implosion, Mel | Poetry | Silver Key | Walt Whitman High School |
| Jesse Cao | 11 | A Summertime Fantasy | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Walt Whitman High School |
| Alice Castillo | 10 | Stained Glass | Short Story | Honorable Mention | George Mason High School |
| Alice Castillo | 10 | Snowfall | Short Story | Silver Key | George Mason High School |
| Alice Castillo | 10 | Wings | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | George Mason High School |
| Annie Castillo | 8 | Find Your Star | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School |
| Annie Castillo | 8 | Do you remember? | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School |
| Annie Castillo | 8 | This | Poetry | Silver Key | Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School |
| Annie Castillo | 8 | Muse | Poetry | Silver Key | Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School |
| Annie Castillo | 8 | Dreaming | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School |
| Caroline Caterini | 12 | About A Painting - Inspired by Camille Pissarro’s The Louvre, Morning, Rainy Weather | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Stone Ridge School of the Sacred |
| Shani Cave | 12 | Food is Heaven | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Pooja Chandrashekar | 12 | A Thousand Dresses | Personal Essay/Memoir | Gold Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Pooja Chandrashekar | 12 | Numbered | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Pooja Chandrashekar | 12 | The Road to Discovery | Writing Portfolio | Gold Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Pooja Chandrashekar | 12 | Accented by Differences | Critical Essay | Gold Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Yujing Chang | 7 | I Still Remember | Short Story | Silver Key | Rachel Carson Middle School |
| Natalie Chao | 11 | Time | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Northwest High School |
| Natalie Chao | 11 | Backstage | Short Story | Gold Key | Northwest High School |
| Natalie Chao | 11 | Cheerios | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Northwest High School |
| Natalie Chao | 11 | Erosion | Poetry | Gold Key | Northwest High School |
| Natalie Chao | 11 | Six Homes Without My Name | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | Northwest High School |
| Sambuddha Chattopadhyay | 10 | The Festival of Colors | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Montgomery Blair High School |
| Larry Cheeks | 11 | Life without Mom and Dad | Short Story | Honorable Mention | SEED School of Washington, DC PCS |
| Constance Chen | 12 | Rememory | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Grace Cheung | 11 | Letter of Love | Personal Essay/Memoir | Gold Key | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Grace Cheung | 11 | Woman, the Backbone of Society: Lord of the Flies as a Feminist Work | Critical Essay | Honorable Mention | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Lauren Chineme | 7 | Coming of the Age to Understand | Personal Essay/Memoir | Gold Key | Deal Middle School |
| William Cho | 7 | Fairy Tale Report | Humor | Silver Key | St. Albans School |
| Emma Choi | 9 | The Girl and the Window | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Marshall High School |
| Jiwon Choi | 12 | Barbie, Learn to Code for Yourself | Journalism | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| William Choi | 11 | Stupid Silly Subjectivity | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Sidwell Friends School |
| Allie Christman | 10 | Land of the Dead | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Commonwealth Academy |
| Abbi Conklin | 10 | The Light | Poetry | Honorable Mention | South County High |
| Leigh Cook | 12 | I am a tree | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Montgomery Blair High School |
| Leigh Cook | 12 | Fragments | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Montgomery Blair High School |
| Antea Cooper | 11 | Words of a Life Remembered | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Hayfield Secondary School |
| Antea Cooper | 11 | The Art of Dancing | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Hayfield Secondary School |
| Sydney Covitz | 11 | Crayons | Poetry | Silver Key | Maret School |
| Sydney Covitz | 11 | Prioritizing Identifiers and Placements of Loyalties | Critical Essay | Honorable Mention | Maret School |
| Cheyenne Curley | 10 | Agros’ Tail | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Stone Ridge School of the Sacred |
| Olivia Dabich | 11 | Russian Dolls | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Marshall High School |
| Olivia Dabich | 11 | The Girl Who Found My Poems | Short Story | Gold Key | Marshall High School |
| Olivia Dabich | 11 | From a Mother to Her Daughter | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Marshall High School |
| Olivia Dabich | 11 | The Day Men Fell From the Sky | Poetry | Silver Key | Marshall High School |
| Olivia Dabich | 11 | Dear Psychiatrist, | Poetry | Gold Key | Marshall High School |
| Olivia Dabich | 11 | A Defector and Family's Guide to the Aftermath of Defection from North Korea | Flash Fiction | Gold Key | Marshall High School |
| Noha Darwish | 10 | The Revolution | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Northwest High School |
| Debi Das | 11 | Momentary Relapse | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Jacqueline DeBruler | 8 | Old House | Poetry | Silver Key | Hayfield Secondary School |
| Heather DeMocker | 11 | Kind of Girl | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Montgomery Blair High School |
| Deepshika Dhansekar | 10 | Learning to Make Biriyani | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Sophia Diggs-Galligan | 9 | Denial | Poetry | Honorable Mention | School Without Walls Senior High School |
| Sophia Diggs-Galligan | 9 | Sky | Poetry | Honorable Mention | School Without Walls Senior High School |
| Sophia Diggs-Galligan | 9 | She will be, When god was just a little girl, Thrall | Poetry | Honorable Mention | School Without Walls Senior High School |
| Sophia Diggs-Galligan | 9 | Summer Rains | Poetry | Honorable Mention | School Without Walls Senior High School |
| Sophia Diggs-Galligan | 9 | I will tell my children all the lies I believed | Poetry | Gold Key | School Without Walls Senior High School |
| Sophia Diggs-Galligan | 9 | Negative Confessions | Poetry | Silver Key | School Without Walls Senior High School |
| Megan Do | 11 | A Familial Affair, September, Night Owl | Poetry | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Aline Dolinh | 11 | High School Theatre, Immigrant Pinks, Multidisciplinary Theories on Love, 2010 | Poetry | Silver Key | Oakton High School |
| Maddie Donley | 12 | Autumn Wind | Poetry | Silver Key | Yorktown High School |
| Maddie Donley | 12 | Housewife's Burden | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Yorktown High School |
| Maddie Donley | 12 | To Lily/To You | Poetry | Silver Key | Yorktown High School |
| Erik Donnelly | 7 | Two Shots Into the Darkness | Dramatic Script | Silver Key | Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School |
| Jasmine Donohue-Ozyar | 8 | Fyodor Orlov | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Westland Middle School |
| Madison Dramstad | 7 | I Will Dance With the Prince | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Honorable Mention | Jefferson Middle School |
| Logan Dreher | 12 | The Edge of the Sky | Short Story | Silver Key | James Hubert Blake High School |
| Logan Dreher | 12 | For a Dog | Short Story | Silver Key | James Hubert Blake High School |
| Kate DuBois | 7 | The Invisible Boy | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Jefferson Middle School |
| Olivia DuCharme | 11 | Found | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Woodson High School |
| Natalie Edmonds | 8 | Wonderland | Poetry | Gold Key | Westland Middle School |
| Belen Edwards | 11 | Blackout | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Washington International School - Tregaron Campus |
| Jana El-Sayed | 10 | Just Like My Mother | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Cleo Elizabeth-Robertson | 12 | Between The Lines | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Woodson High School |
| Cleo Elizabeth-Robertson | 12 | Self-Portrait In Third Person | Poetry | Gold Key | Woodson High School |
| D Ertem | 8 | The Void | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Silver Key | Lowell School |
| Elli Esher | 11 | Inside Her Closet | Short Story | Honorable Mention | - |
| Colin Evans | 12 | A Narrative That Rises In Me | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Yorktown High School |
| Sophie Ewing | 9 | The Djinn and the Sparrow | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Silver Key | Sidwell Friends School |
| Sophie Ewing | 9 | A Career Change | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Honorable Mention | Sidwell Friends School |
| Sophie Ewing | 9 | Valentine's Day | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Honorable Mention | Sidwell Friends School |
| Jenny Fiedler | 11 | Wendy | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | West Potomac High School |
| Clare Fitzgerald | 8 | Philippic | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Silver Spring International Middle School |
| Colleen Flanagan | 12 | Lana | Poetry | Gold Key | Herndon High School |
| Julia Flynn | 9 | Love and Fear | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Silver Key | Washington-Lee High School |
| Julia Flynn | 9 | The Eye | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Honorable Mention | Washington-Lee High School |
| Edward Fortunato | 12 | White Winter | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Isabella Fowler | 10 | The Traveler, The Storm, Still Nature Loves Tradition | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Oakcrest School |
| Quintin Frerichs | 12 | The Stone House | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Isabella Frymoyer | 8 | Thing of Beauty | Personal Essay/Memoir | Gold Key | Swanson Middle School |
| Isabella Frymoyer | 8 | A Sliver of Silence | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Swanson Middle School |
| Isabella Frymoyer | 8 | A Big World | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Swanson Middle School |
| Luka Gabitsinashvili | 8 | Where I Am From | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Swanson Middle School |
| Dana Gerber | 9 | Thoughts on Knowing a Thirteen-Year-Old Non-Virgin | Poetry | Gold Key | Walter Johnson High School |
| Dana Gerber | 9 | In This Dream | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Walter Johnson High School |
| Nicholas Gigot | 11 | Monkeys with Cameras | Critical Essay | Gold Key | St. Albans School |
| Emily Goff | 10 | Delicate Flash | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Herndon High School |
| Samantha Greene | 11 | The Poet's Guide to 2AM | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Falls Church High School |
| Aliana Gungor | 12 | To Admissions Officers, With Love | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Richa Gupta | 10 | The Gray Area | Poetry | Gold Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Daniel Halpert | 8 | Going Through the Motions | Flash Fiction | Gold Key | Maret School |
| Margot Hanclich | 12 | Infinite Coda | Poetry | Gold Key | Yorktown High School |
| Margot Hanclich | 12 | Psalm; Canticle of Homo Sapiens | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Yorktown High School |
| Margot Hanclich | 12 | Cinderella's Horses | Poetry | Silver Key | Yorktown High School |
| Margot Hanclich | 12 | Writing Portfolio | Writing Portfolio | Honorable Mention | Yorktown High School |
| Margot Hanclich | 12 | (Ear)Worm | Short Story | Silver Key | Yorktown High School |
| Matthew Harrington | 9 | Ahmad Tei | Dramatic Script | Silver Key | Marshall High School |
| Haley Hassell | 11 | bandages | Poetry | Gold Key | St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School |
| Haley Hassell | 11 | Small Town Longing | Poetry | Gold Key | St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School |
| Haley Hassell | 11 | The Little Things | Poetry | Gold Key | St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School |
| Haley Hassell | 11 | Realizations | Poetry | Honorable Mention | St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School |
| Haley Hassell | 11 | we were both scared to wear swimsuits | Poetry | Silver Key | St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School |
| Caroline Heilbrun | 12 | No Child Should Be Left Inside | Critical Essay | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Emily Herman | 10 | Actor | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Chantilly High School |
| Sophia Higgins | 11 | Can Machines Think? | Critical Essay | Honorable Mention | Walt Whitman High School |
| Sophia Higgins | 11 | Numb | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Walt Whitman High School |
| Thomas Hill | 12 | Scarecrow | Poetry | Silver Key | Col. Zadok Magruder High School |
| Thomas Hill | 12 | Legend | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Col. Zadok Magruder High School |
| Elyse Hoffman | 12 | There's No Such Thing As Monsters | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | West Potomac High School |
| Elyse Hoffman | 12 | Under the Carpet | Short Story | Silver Key | West Potomac High School |
| Elyse Hoffman | 12 | Freundschaftbezeigungen | Short Story | Silver Key | West Potomac High School |
| Elyse Hoffman | 12 | Malenki | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | West Potomac High School |
| Nina Holtz | 11 | Eva | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Silver Key | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Joyce Hong | 11 | Summertime Cicadas | Short Story | Gold Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Mae Hunt | 10 | Barred | Flash Fiction | Gold Key | The Madeira School |
| Mae Hunt | 10 | Cautionary Verbs | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | The Madeira School |
| Frederick Ignacio | 12 | Father's Day | Short Story | Gold Key | Northwood High School |
| D J | 12 | Counting | Poetry | Silver Key | - |
| Gavrielle Jacobovitz | 11 | To Do List | Flash Fiction | Gold Key | Woodrow Wilson Senior High School |
| Gavrielle Jacobovitz | 11 | The Shell | Short Story | Silver Key | Woodrow Wilson Senior High School |
| Susanqi Jiang | 12 | Margaret | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Susanqi Jiang | 12 | Dumplings | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Susanqi Jiang | 12 | The Art Stool | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Katrina Junta | 12 | Sweetness in Recovery | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Rebecca Kachman | 7 | Compilation: Poems about Nonconformity and Fighting | Poetry | Gold Key | Sidwell Friends School |
| Samiksha Kale | 8 | 3-2-1 Fun, My Spark of Inspiration, The Jewel of India, Wretched Soul | Poetry | Gold Key | Kilmer Middle School |
| Hriday Kamshatti | 12 | Anjaiah | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Ellen Kan | 12 | Testing Endurance | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Chase Kappeler | 8 | Wild Fires | Poetry | Silver Key | Hayfield Secondary School |
| Raya Kenney | 7 | Something | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Honorable Mention | - |
| Raya Kenney | 7 | Taken From a Picture | Short Story | Honorable Mention | - |
| Ahnaf Khan | 10 | My Song Of Bangladesh | Personal Essay/Memoir | Gold Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Emmalyn Kim | 8 | Traits of Nature Collection | Poetry | Silver Key | Kilmer Middle School |
| Emmalyn Kim | 8 | Doorbell Possibilities | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Kilmer Middle School |
| Min Seong Kim | 11 | Salad Bowl | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Flint Hill Highschool |
| Min Seong Kim | 11 | Economics of Immigration: Cost-Benefit Approach to Illegal Immigration and the Labor Market | Critical Essay | Honorable Mention | Flint Hill Highschool |
| Ema Klugman | 12 | Enjoying the Present | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | Maret School |
| Alex Knapper | 9 | The Dark Below | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Silver Key | St. Albans School |
| Antonia Kotliarov | 8 | Light At The End Of The Tunnel. | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Gunston Middle School |
| Kirthi Kumar | 7 | Breathe | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Nysmith School for the Gifted |
| Kirthi Kumar | 7 | Consider our Rights, NSA! | Critical Essay | Honorable Mention | Nysmith School for the Gifted |
| Sofia Laguarda | 11 | Please Curb Your Dog | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Sidwell Friends School |
| Sofia Laguarda | 11 | Mother Earth | Humor | Honorable Mention | Sidwell Friends School |
| Sofia Laguarda | 11 | Doll Funeral | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | Sidwell Friends School |
| Sofia Laguarda | 11 | The Pope Tweets (And Other Thoughts on God) | Personal Essay/Memoir | Gold Key, American Voices Nominee | Sidwell Friends School |
| Josh Landweber | 7 | Beacon | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Honorable Mention | Deal Middle School |
| Jennifer Lee | 11 | A World of Light | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Eloise Lindblom | 12 | A Master of Impressionism | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Albert Einstein High School |
| Caitlyn Ling | 10 | Bound | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Caitlyn Ling | 10 | Of the Shunned | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Cynthia Liu | 11 | Ellipses | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Montgomery Blair High School |
| Henry Lozano | 9 | DANGER | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Duke Ellington School of the Arts |
| Marisa Lu | 12 | Presenting: Headless Chick(en) on Ice | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Winston Churchill High School |
| Joanna Mak | 12 | on moonlighting the evil eye | Poetry | Silver Key | Thomas S. Wootton High School |
| Eliza Malakoff | 12 | Click! | Poetry | Silver Key | T.C. Williams High School |
| Eliza Malakoff | 12 | Lenses: An Exploration of Authenticity, Identity, and Illusion | Writing Portfolio | Honorable Mention | T.C. Williams High School |
| Santiago Mallan | 11 | The Lighthouse Keeper | Short Story | Gold Key | H-B Woodlawn |
| Quinn Malone | 10 | Untitled Beauty | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Quince Orchard High School |
| Edward Maloney | 10 | The Pacific | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Duke Ellington School of the Arts |
| Edward Maloney | 10 | Once to New Mexico | Flash Fiction | Gold Key | Duke Ellington School of the Arts |
| Edward Maloney | 10 | Pill Bottles | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | Duke Ellington School of the Arts |
| Yamini Manikoth | 7 | Dead Dreams | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Lakelands Park Middle School |
| Hannah Masling | 7 | A Little Stronger | Personal Essay/Memoir | Gold Key | Deal Middle School |
| Eric Matsumoto | 12 | I Remember | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Maret School |
| Jennifer McLish | 11 | The War on Children | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Maret School |
| Jennifer McLish | 11 | The Fountain of Youth | Poetry | Gold Key | Maret School |
| Rebecca Merriman-Goldring | 12 | Life in Context | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Isabel Meyers | 12 | The Well | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Honorable Mention | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Isabel Meyers | 12 | Bra Breaker | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Alison Miller | 12 | Persimmonininability | Writing Portfolio | Honorable Mention | Washington-Lee High School |
| Krysta Miller | 10 | Poetry | Poetry | Silver Key | Covenant Life School |
| Kalila Morsink | 12 | And Down They All Fell | Short Story | Silver Key | Georgetown Day School |
| Tess Mortell | 7 | Bangs | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | Washington Latin PCS - 16th Street Campus |
| Claire Moy | 9 | Made to Dance | Short Story | Silver Key | Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School |
| Shreya Nandi | 12 | Questions: Identification, Gender Norm | Poetry | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Anna Nardello | 7 | A Hundred Personalities | Personal Essay/Memoir | Gold Key | Deal Middle School |
| Nicole Nelkin | 10 | A Real Superhero: Why Marvel Studios Needs to Make a Film About Black Widow | Critical Essay | Silver Key | - |
| Malina Nelson | 7 | Paper Cranes | Short Story | Gold Key | Gunston Middle School |
| Kalina Newman | 12 | Writing Portfolio | Writing Portfolio | Gold Key | Yorktown High School |
| Kalina Newman | 12 | A Ratty Valentines | Humor | Gold Key | Yorktown High School |
| Kalina Newman | 12 | 1:00 AM, August 11th | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Yorktown High School |
| Kalina Newman | 12 | Thick Thighs Save Lives | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Yorktown High School |
| Christine Nguyen | 10 | Best Friends | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Falls Church High School |
| Luke Nogueira | 10 | Accents | Poetry | Silver Key | Duke Ellington School of the Arts |
| Luke Nogueira | 10 | 1967 | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Duke Ellington School of the Arts |
| Grace Noll | 7 | Blue Rose | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Gold Key | Maret School |
| Lily O'Dowd | 11 | The Amazing Charlamire | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School |
| Lily O'Dowd | 11 | Scout's Honor | Humor | Silver Key | Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School |
| Lily O'Dowd | 11 | Argo On His Own | Humor | Honorable Mention | Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School |
| Jonathan Odim | 8 | Bullies And Crushes | Critical Essay | Honorable Mention | Takoma Park Middle School |
| Jonathan Odim | 8 | Letter To Joshua Starr Superintendent Mcps | Critical Essay | Honorable Mention | Takoma Park Middle School |
| Jonathan Odim | 8 | A Thanksgiving Suprise: Brotherly Love | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Takoma Park Middle School |
| Danielle Oh | 12 | I Already Know | Poetry | Silver Key | Marshall High School |
| Danielle Oh | 12 | Parasitic Bullets | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Marshall High School |
| Makayla Ollivierre | 8 | My Very Own Hazel Grace | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Rosa M. Parks Middle School |
| Abigail Olshin | 12 | Fragmented Friends, Death's Side of the Bed | Poetry | Honorable Mention | - |
| Emily Orem | 8 | Dandelion | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Blessed Sacrament Elementary School |
| Emily Orem | 8 | No Blackberries Here | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Blessed Sacrament Elementary School |
| Abigail Page | 9 | Big Girls Don't Have Boyfriends | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Falls Church High School |
| Gillian Page | 11 | Chess Pieces | Short Story | Gold Key, American Voices Nominee | Georgetown Day School |
| Rachel Page | 11 | Islands | Short Story | Gold Key | Woodrow Wilson Senior High School |
| Rachel Page | 11 | Cats | Short Story | Gold Key, American Voices Nominee | Woodrow Wilson Senior High School |
| Anna Parnell | 10 | Petrichor | Poetry | Silver Key | George Mason High School |
| Anna Parnell | 10 | To Icarus In Flight | Poetry | Silver Key | George Mason High School |
| Anna Parnell | 10 | Song of the Ocean | Poetry | Honorable Mention | George Mason High School |
| Maya Pearson | 11 | If I Asked You to Jump Off a Cliff | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Silver Key | Robinson Secondary |
| Alexa Perlmutter | 10 | Escaping Adulthood | Poetry | Honorable Mention | National Cathedral School |
| Thalia Peters | 7 | New Name | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Julius West Middle School |
| Julia Phaltankar | 10 | One Language | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School |
| Olivia Pickens | 7 | A Christmas Gift | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | Deal Middle School |
| Nicholas Poole | 10 | Exploring Ourselves | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Fairfax High School |
| Rachel Price | 10 | Societal Fallacy | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Bishop Ireton |
| Jasper Prouvost | 12 | Capsize | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Maret School |
| Rosa Pyo | 10 | As Ever | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Thomas S. Wootton High School |
| Anjali Ravi | 12 | Niagara, Searching for remnants | Poetry | Silver Key | Thomas S. Wootton High School |
| Anjali Ravi | 12 | Alphabet Soup | Poetry | Gold Key | Thomas S. Wootton High School |
| Anjali Ravi | 12 | Hiroshima | Short Story | Silver Key | Thomas S. Wootton High School |
| Anjali Ravi | 12 | Our Ghosts | Poetry | Silver Key | Thomas S. Wootton High School |
| Anjali Ravi | 12 | Threshold | Writing Portfolio | Silver Key | Thomas S. Wootton High School |
| Anthony Robinson | 9 | Him. | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Duke Ellington School of the Arts |
| Robert Rose | 12 | Pride & Watchmen | Poetry | Silver Key | Montgomery Blair High School |
| Annie Rosenthal | 12 | Have a Little Faith: The 91-Year-Old Ex-Broadway Star Who Keeps Trying to Save DC | Journalism | Silver Key | Woodrow Wilson Senior High School |
| Annie Rosenthal | 12 | Dear Prospective Female Student: A Satirical Letter from the U-Va. Admissions Office | Humor | Honorable Mention | Woodrow Wilson Senior High School |
| Annie Rosenthal | 12 | The Real Victims of the Westboro Baptist Church | Critical Essay | Silver Key | Woodrow Wilson Senior High School |
| Annie Rosenthal | 12 | The Good Guys of Punk: Fugazi Looks Back on Wilson and the Birth of DC Punk | Journalism | Gold Key | Woodrow Wilson Senior High School |
| Annie Rosenthal | 12 | Principal Cartwright Comes Out As Gay at LGBTQ Pride Day | Journalism | Honorable Mention | Woodrow Wilson Senior High School |
| Annie Rosenthal | 12 | Bug Baby | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Woodrow Wilson Senior High School |
| Hannah Rosman | 8 | Princess Me! | Humor | Honorable Mention | Swanson Middle School |
| Arda Sahiner | 12 | TOK TIK | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Thomas S. Wootton High School |
| Elie Salem | 7 | Bull Run Campout | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Deal Middle School |
| Neeka Samimi | 8 | Familiar Nothing | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Honorable Mention | Kenmore Middle School |
| Neeka Samimi | 8 | After Ada | Short Story | Silver Key | Kenmore Middle School |
| Jules Schifferes | 11 | Nausea | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Edmund Burke School |
| Joanna Schroeder | 11 | America The Beautiful | Flash Fiction | Gold Key | Yorktown High School |
| Joanna Schroeder | 11 | The Real Housewives of Boston: 1775 | Humor | Silver Key | Yorktown High School |
| Joanna Schroeder | 11 | Girly | Short Story | Silver Key | Yorktown High School |
| Marriya Schwarz | 11 | We Have a Lot in Common, Mr. Banner | Dramatic Script | Honorable Mention | Oakton High School |
| Marriya Schwarz | 11 | Sergeant Teddy | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Oakton High School |
| Nancy Scofield | 11 | Lemon Sorbet | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Duke Ellington School of the Arts |
| Giulia Setola | 7 | Our Own Tabula Rasa | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Deal Middle School |
| Fonda Shen | 10 | Gunman | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Blessed Sheriff | 12 | Memoirs on Despair | Poetry | Silver Key | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Daniela Shia-Sevilla | 10 | Something To Argue For | Poetry | Gold Key | Duke Ellington School of the Arts |
| Eva Silverman | 11 | The Queen | Poetry | Honorable Mention | School for Tomorrow |
| Eva Silverman | 11 | Reconciliation | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | School for Tomorrow |
| Shea Sion | 10 | Free | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | Holton-Arms School |
| Paulina Song | 9 | Easter Lily | Short Story | Honorable Mention | National Cathedral School |
| Paulina Song | 9 | You Are My Sunshine | Short Story | Gold Key | National Cathedral School |
| Paulina Song | 9 | Unfulfilled Feelings | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | National Cathedral School |
| Diana Carolina Sosa | 12 | Cultural Diffusion and Some Confusion | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Westfield High School |
| Maddie Sparrow | 10 | Adventure, Resilience | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Stone Ridge School of the Sacred |
| Claire Spaulding | 12 | Looking at the Metamorphosis of Girl Into Laurel Tree | Poetry | Gold Key | Washington-Lee High School |
| Claire Spaulding | 12 | Leftovers for Homecoming | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Honorable Mention | Washington-Lee High School |
| Claire Spaulding | 12 | Between the Mountain | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Gold Key | Washington-Lee High School |
| Claire Spaulding | 12 | Girls from Edges and Corners | Writing Portfolio | Silver Key | Washington-Lee High School |
| Keighan Speer | 10 | And Who Was I | Poetry | Honorable Mention | South County High |
| Lily Spiro | 11 | Wake Eternal Excerpt | Dramatic Script | Honorable Mention | Woodson High School |
| Savannah Steblein | 12 | Who Am I? | Poetry | Silver Key | Fairfax High School |
| Naomi Steinglass | 8 | Lila | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | Lowell School |
| Coco Strassberg | 10 | The Man Who Sees the Storm | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Honorable Mention | Maret School |
| Sofia Suardi | 7 | King of Sumer: an Inside View | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Deal Middle School |
| Sofia Suardi | 7 | Letter to the Queen of Anylandia | Critical Essay | Silver Key | Deal Middle School |
| Sofia Suardi | 7 | Awful Sister | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Deal Middle School |
| Christian Tae | 12 | Stories Told With Ginseng Tea | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Julia Tallon | 11 | Yellow Eyes | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Honorable Mention | James Hubert Blake High School |
| Shawal Tariq | 10 | No Arms No Legs | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Washington-Lee High School |
| Rapha Tenembaum | 8 | A Spiky Shell With a Teardrop Inside | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | - |
| Ashley Thieme | 12 | Words, Lies, 1 in 5 | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School |
| Ashley Thieme | 12 | Exams | Humor | Honorable Mention | Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School |
| Sarah Thomas | 12 | Reconciling Science and the Christian Faith | Critical Essay | Honorable Mention | Paul VI Catholic High School |
| Sarah Thomas | 12 | Listen Closely | Critical Essay | Honorable Mention | Paul VI Catholic High School |
| Sarah Thomas | 12 | India | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Paul VI Catholic High School |
| Sarah Thomas | 12 | Solamente | Poetry | Silver Key | Paul VI Catholic High School |
| Katharine Threat | 11 | Inhalation | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Quince Orchard High School |
| Katharine Threat | 11 | Before You Go | Poetry | Silver Key | Quince Orchard High School |
| Katharine Threat | 11 | What Cascades from the Eyes of the Lonely | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Quince Orchard High School |
| Emily Tian | 8 | Constellations | Poetry | Gold Key | Holton-Arms School |
| Rocky Tonkel | 11 | Snow Day | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | Maret School |
| Bradley Trumpfheller | 12 | Prattville, AL | Personal Essay/Memoir | Gold Key | Yorktown High School |
| Bradley Trumpfheller | 12 | satellite ii (an elegy for laika) | Poetry | Silver Key | Yorktown High School |
| Bradley Trumpfheller | 12 | Requiem | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Yorktown High School |
| Bradley Trumpfheller | 12 | Writing Portfolio | Writing Portfolio | Silver Key | Yorktown High School |
| Bradley Trumpfheller | 12 | The Artists Dreams in Broken Rainbows | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Yorktown High School |
| Bradley Trumpfheller | 12 | Empty Houses | Dramatic Script | Honorable Mention | Yorktown High School |
| Thinh Tu | 10 | Memories Of Mangos | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Taylan Tunçata | 11 | Society’s Existential Crisis: The Significance of Cinema in Weimar Germany | Critical Essay | Gold Key | Maret School |
| Hanna Un | 10 | Permanent Stains | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Lake Braddock Secondary |
| Tristan Varma | 11 | Seasons | Poetry | Silver Key | Robinson Secondary |
| Masha Vasilchenko | 8 | Never | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Robert Frost Middle School |
| Kalinda Vathupola | 12 | Manhattan Chase | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Gold Key | Northwest High School |
| Kalinda Vathupola | 12 | On the Alarming Rise of Pseudo-Intellectualism Among Consumers of Popular Communications Media | Humor | Silver Key | Northwest High School |
| Paul Velasco | 7 | The Challenge | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | Jefferson Middle School |
| Paul Velasco | 7 | All-Day Detention | Humor | Honorable Mention | Jefferson Middle School |
| Kaycie Wang | 10 | I Smile | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Episcopal High School |
| Peiqi Wang | 8 | A False Dichotomy: Privacy and Security in the Digital Age | Critical Essay | Gold Key | Rachel Carson Middle School |
| Lydia Wei | 7 | How To Live | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Eastern Middle School |
| Anna Weidman | 12 | Rainbow Tie-Dye and Denim | Personal Essay/Memoir | Gold Key | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Anna Weidman | 12 | Trends: #Feminism | Journalism | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| Ella Weiner | 9 | A lovely alphabet | Poetry | Silver Key | School Without Walls Senior High School |
| Ella Weiner | 9 | The bereft man's art show | Poetry | Gold Key | School Without Walls Senior High School |
| Naomi Weintraub | 12 | Six- Sided Constellation | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Montgomery Blair High School |
| Olenka Wellisz | 10 | Remember The Night | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Stone Ridge School of the Sacred |
| Olenka Wellisz | 10 | A Treatise On Misandry And Its Justifications | Humor | Honorable Mention | Stone Ridge School of the Sacred |
| Olenka Wellisz | 10 | Orthodontics | Short Story | Silver Key | Stone Ridge School of the Sacred |
| Olenka Wellisz | 10 | Cucumbers | Short Story | Silver Key | Stone Ridge School of the Sacred |
| Amanda Wessel | 11 | Diverging from the public school system | Journalism | Gold Key | Montgomery Blair High School |
| America Williams | 7 | Exhilaration Galor! | Personal Essay/Memoir | Silver Key | Deal Middle School |
| Mary-Kate Wilson | 7 | Flowers//Hands | Short Story | Silver Key | Washington Latin PCS - 16th Street Campus |
| Mary-Kate Wilson | 7 | My Mouth Will Be the Ocean, Bones | Poetry | Gold Key | Washington Latin PCS - 16th Street Campus |
| Megan Wirtz | 12 | Collaged Masterpiece | Flash Fiction | Gold Key | Georgetown Day School |
| Mark Wise | 10 | Reverse the Hourglass | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Damascus High School |
| Emma Wolfe | 11 | Star-Crossed (lovers?) | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Walt Whitman High School |
| Emma Wolfe | 11 | Mirage; Dog Days | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Walt Whitman High School |
| Emma Wolfe | 11 | Migration | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Walt Whitman High School |
| Hana Wong | 7 | My Sketchbook | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Silver Key | Twain Middle School |
| Annabelle Woodward | 11 | Idaho | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Episcopal High School |
| Annabelle Woodward | 11 | Revelations on the L.I.E. | Short Story | Gold Key | Episcopal High School |
| Elizabeth Woolford | 10 | Failure | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Yorktown High School |
| Elizabeth Woolford | 10 | Heaven | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Yorktown High School |
| Elizabeth Woolford | 10 | The Indigo Sky | Poetry | Silver Key | Yorktown High School |
| Elizabeth Woolford | 10 | Fall | Poetry | Gold Key | Yorktown High School |
| Michael Woon | 12 | Keep The Internet Free | Critical Essay | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
| MaryAnn Workman | 11 | Four Seasons | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Essi Wunderman | 9 | Greatest Show on Earth | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Washington-Lee High School |
| Victoria Yang | 11 | Why Feminism is Still Relevant | Critical Essay | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Victoria Yang | 11 | 11:42 | Short Story | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Josephine Yu | 11 | Thunderstorms, The Sound of Living, A Puppet Dance | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Montgomery Blair High School |
| Justin Yum | 12 | Human Intelligence Can't Figure Out Intelligence | Critical Essay | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Nadiro Yusuf | 12 | A Man's Obsession | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Fairfax High School |
| Anonto Zaman | 9 | Remember the Gray | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Honorable Mention | South County High |
| Anonto Zaman | 9 | Stories of a Mind | Poetry | Honorable Mention | South County High |
| Anne Zetkulic | 8 | Dance | Poetry | Silver Key | Jefferson Middle School |
| Anne Zetkulic | 8 | Not So Different | Flash Fiction | Honorable Mention | Jefferson Middle School |
| Anne Zetkulic | 8 | Bias Big, Bias Small | Critical Essay | Silver Key | Jefferson Middle School |
| Emily Zhang | 11 | Pretend Poem; Meditations on The Matrix; Story for the Salt; Story for the Fish; Side Effects | Poetry | Gold Key | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Emily Zhang | 11 | Fairy Tale for Strange Times; Almost History; Transitory; some kind of jewel | Poetry | Silver Key | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Emily Zhang | 11 | Here is a Window | Poetry | Silver Key | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Emily Zhang | 11 | Glass Sky; Anatomy of Air | Poetry | Honorable Mention | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Emily Zhang | 11 | One Mississippi | Dramatic Script | Gold Key | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Emily Zhang | 11 | Transitory; How to be Auxiliary; Story for the Salt; For a River | Poetry | Gold Key, American Voices Nominee | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Emily Zhang | 11 | How to Steal a Storm; History of Navigation; Light Confessions | Poetry | Gold Key | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Emily Zhang | 11 | A Generous Wad of Chewing Gum | Short Story | Gold Key, American Voices Nominee | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Emily Zhang | 11 | Sorry but this isn't really about love; Poem for the Apocalypse | Poetry | Silver Key | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Jonathan Zheng | 11 | Catcher Never Lie | Humor | Gold Key | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Jonathan Zheng | 11 | Atrophy | Short Story | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Jonathan Zheng | 11 | For a Dead Princess | Flash Fiction | Silver Key | Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology |
| Vivien Zhu | 11 | Tone Poems for the Piano | Poetry | Silver Key | Richard Montgomery High School |
| Talia Zitner | 8 | 100.3 | Poetry | Silver Key | Deal Middle School |
| Talia Zitner | 8 | Electric Soul | Short Story | Gold Key | Deal Middle School |
| Talia Zitner | 8 | House of Worship | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Deal Middle School |
| Eliza Zizka | 9 | Lonely Planet | Short Story | Gold Key | School Without Walls Senior High School |
| Emily Zou | 11 | Popcorn | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Chantilly High School |
| Madeline Zug | 12 | Still Perfect | Personal Essay/Memoir | Honorable Mention | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology |
